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Article: A Return to the Latin Mass.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 25, 2007
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Nearly two generations of Catholics now have grown up in a post-Vatican II world, worshipping in a church that celebrates mass in their local languages and, at least to some extent, embraces modern customs as much as it once rejected them.
So it seemed anathema when the Vatican confirmed recently that Pope Benedict XVI would relax restrictions on celebrating the 16th-century Tridentin Mass, citing "a new and renewed" interest in the ancient Latin liturgy, especially among younger Catholics.
Given the fierce fight that preceded Vatican II-the liturgical and doctrinal reforms of the mid-1960s that sought to make the church more accessible-a similar war would seem needed ...